Weather-boarding gage



(ModeL) J. MILLER. WIEATHE BOARDING GAGE. No. 290,457. Patented Dec. 18, 1883.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

JACOB MILLER, OF ROGKPORT, INDIANA.

WEATHER-BOARDING GAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,457, dated December 18, 1883. Application filed November 16, 1882. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J AOOB MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing one and onehalf mile from Rockport, in the county of Spencer and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful AdjustableWeather- Boarding Gage and Rest; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Heretofore, as far as this petitioner is advised, carpenters and house-builders have been accustomed to gage the width of show of weathr 5 er-boarding by a simple measure, and to provide a rest for-the same by driving two nails partly into the wall below.

The objects of my invention are to provide a simple and convenient means of measuring or gaging the show of weather-boarding, and to furnish at the same time a rest to hold the next plank above in its place ready for nailing without the delay of measuring and then of driving nails for the support, and also to provide such a gage that the width of show of the weather-boarding may easily and speedily be altered at pleasure. I attain these objects by the machine illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a vertical section of the entire machine, as fixed in a wall, supporting a piece of weatherboarding ready to be nailed.

In the figure, the letter A represents a vertical section of the studding.

B B and B represent the ends of the planks on the wall.

0 represents the shank or handle of the machine.

D represents the upper prong of the machine, which supports the plank to be nailed.

E represents the lower prong, which in use is placed just below the edge of the last plank which has been nailed upon the wall, and this prong is provided with a hole through 45 the head or blunt end F, cut with threads, so

as to screw upon the lower end 'of the shank O, which is likewise cut with threads like a screw to admit the same. At G and G are nuts which screw on just above and below the lower prong for the purpose of fastening this prong when adjusted to the proper width. The shank O is six inches long. The upper prong, D, is two and one-half inches long. The lower prong, E, is about three inches long, for the purpose of making the rest incline a little toward the wall, in order to support the plank more steadily and securely. The shank and upper prongare made of about three eighths-inch iron rod bent at a right angle at H, and the prong is tapering and sharpened toward the end. The lower prong is wedge-shaped, also of iron, about five-eighths. of an inch wide and from onefourth to three-eighths of 'an inch thick at its head, and tapering and sharpened at the point. T

The threads on the shank G are cut for about two inches from the lower end. Two of these machines make a set, and are to be used with one at each end of the plank. It isto be fastened to the wall by driving the points of the prongs in sufficiently to hold it steady by a tap of a hammer.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The hereinbefore-described weather-boarding gage, consisting of the bar 0, having one end sharpened or pointed and bent approximately at right an gle,whereby the prong D is provided, and having its other end threaded, as shown, the adjustable prong E, projected approximately at right angles to the shank or bar 0, and having one end sharpened and its other end sleeved upon the threaded end of the bar 0, and suitable nuts for adjusting the prong E up or down on said bar or shank, 8 5 substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

JACOB MILLER.

Witnesses:

FRANK G. J ONES, JAMES A. J ONES. 

